The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1797 - 436 páginas |
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... true in the art of fpeaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To observe the various ways by which nature expref- ses the feveral ...
... true in the art of fpeaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To observe the various ways by which nature expref- ses the feveral ...
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... true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
... true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
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... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always ex- hibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always ex- hibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
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... true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE renders a fuperior ...
... true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE renders a fuperior ...
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... true morality and religion . PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ...
... true morality and religion . PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ...
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